Ben: morally justified or not?

Was Ben right in his actions in s5?

  • Yes

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • No

    Votes: 4 80.0%

  • Half and half

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    5
Mott1

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So Glory's Ben, and Ben's Glory, but were his actions justified (notably in Listening To Fear and The Weight Of The World), or at least understandable? Not sure how to vote myself on this one!
 
I totally think it was justified. He shared a body with Glory, so unless they could find a way to separate the two, it was a necessary killing. Like Giles said, Glory would surely come back and make Buffy pay for what she had done if they didn't make sure she couldn't come back. So Giles took Ben's life to save countless others.
 
NotASlayer
NotASlayer
I think the question is if Ben's actions were justified?
Was he just in killing off a bunch of brain-sucked victims so there's no chance ever that anyone could reverse their brain suck? No. It's not clear what happened to those that survived but Ben was not god, even if he lived inside one.

Was he justified in siding with Glory? Of course not. I feel sorry for him, but the honourable choice is to do that which will result in the fewest fatalities. His choice to cooperate with Glory could not fail to result in more human misery. If you have to let the train run over one person, even if that person is you, in order to prevent derailment... that kills all the people on the train, and maybe causes damage to the surrounding people? There's only one moral choice. Is it a fun choice? heck no.

We cannot justify malign actions because they serve OUR needs. If the politicians would learn this, our planet would be in far better shape... but that's off topic.

Honourable action would have been suicide. He had access to all sorts of meds. If one doesn't care about being caught, it's easy to get meds in a hospital. Even air in the veins. Once he could sense who she was, he had a choice. even before that, he knew what she was doing. He knew he couldn't survive. He was simply wanting to live more than the earth and all other dimensions. Not much of a prize, Ben.
 
DeepBlueJoy said:
Was he just in killing off a bunch of brain-sucked victims so there's no chance ever that anyone could reverse their brain suck? No. It's not clear what happened to those that survived but Ben was not god, even if he lived inside one.

Was he justified in siding with Glory? Of course not. I feel sorry for him, but the honourable choice is to do that which will result in the fewest fatalities. His choice to cooperate with Glory could not fail to result in more human misery. If you have to let the train run over one person, even if that person is you, in order to prevent derailment... that kills all the people on the train, and maybe causes damage to the surrounding people? There's only one moral choice. Is it a fun choice? heck no.

We cannot justify malign actions because they serve OUR needs. If the politicians would learn this, our planet would be in far better shape... but that's off topic.

Honourable action would have been suicide. He had access to all sorts of meds. If one doesn't care about being caught, it's easy to get meds in a hospital. Even air in the veins. Once he could sense who she was, he had a choice. even before that, he knew what she was doing. He knew he couldn't survive. He was simply wanting to live more than the earth and all other dimensions. Not much of a prize, Ben.
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The Queller was even killing those brain sucked by Glory, since it tried to kill Joyce and Dawn as well
 
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